One thing I don't see stated enough, and I'm obviously the craziest dude posting on Halo story threads is HALO is not a Bungie game anymore.
It's a Microsoft Product, just like Office, Windows etc...
343i has to bring three mainline games in exchange of their funding, but, OBVIOUSLY, there is someone there whose job is to pull as much ideas out of his mind to get the franchise running for decades, not just three games.
So...
I'm mostly interested in what the end game for the most iconic characters, Chief & Cortana, will make the IP evolve.
Whether Cortana dies, the Chief reclaims etc...what does it say about the Halo Universe?
What do
Iyou want to see? what can make the series go beyond the goodwill it has amassed during the course of its ten years.
Halo lore is already spanning over millions of years, and yet all games are played in the course of 30 years.
what stories can be relevant once the Chief is dead? should he die? or shall every single story revolve around him?
I was very excited by the Didact characterization, but the snippets we got of him in Halo 4 make it seem he's very dumbed down from the books. Hopefully 343i works on that. Because introducing more Forerunner things in Halo is both a responsibility but also the easisest card to play when moving the franchise forward. And they are clearly taking their sweet time by starting the Reclaimer trilogy with the Didact threat when the books already point to much bigger threats from Beyond.
that said, I'm EXCITE.
Nope, i don't agree. A Warning not to wake the Didact comes along with Requiem, but the Didact has "Long since dreamed of this Day, Reclaimer", so he didn't issue that warning himself.
He may've been the most powerfull Warrior-Servant, but he is not invincible. He's been had before and now there's even a duplicate of him.
my personnal view :
Didact cannot stand to see humans reclaiming the Mantle. His DNA is programmed for the task, and his motivation is in fact beyond his own will.
So, yeah he's eager to meet the Chief because the guy is stealing his raison-d'-être. because the Precursors decided so.
Didact's Life = protecting the Mantle. this comes first even as he loves the Librarian.
but Silentium points towards the Didact making a very bad yet necessary choice, so we'll probably get a great spin from greg Bear about what happens when one person launches a strike against an entire galaxy, even if it's to protect it.
I can't decide if he silences himself or is silenced but I do believe his return to a Crytum is motivated so he does not talk.
Master Builder was the top dog, and even he could not kill the Ur Didact.
Maybe the love triangle between the Librarian and two Didacts will make some shit rain all ove the galaxy. Don't know if free love exists in Forerunner society.
what's interesting is that the Chief, unknowingly, achieves in a few days, what the Didact could not do in the span of thousands of years.
Do you think the Didact likes beingbossed by a "barely" revolved human? that's a strong motivation for enmity. that said, the script pages and the nasty voice from the trailer point towards a less sublte than I wished Didact.
Being jalous and pretty much out of a job is a good enough reason to cause mayhem!!!! no need to make him nasty to justify kicking some Forerunner's ass. that's too easy too pull.
I really wish he would have been included in halo 4 in a not so in your face manner.
I would have much preferred for his actions to mesh with those of the Chief rather than be a mean to drive the Chief's actions. Hopefully Halo 5 gives me that.